Hannah, My Beautiful.

Okay, here's Hannah again. (I have a lot to put up right now, since I haven't for so long.)

Hannah's so cute, I just can't resist putting up pictures of her. Sometimes I get carried away. I know more isn't always better, but sometimes it sure is more fun! I love how Hannah is learning to be more interactive, and how she is learning to like playing on her tummy (she used to hate it), and I love how cute she is, and how expressive and beautiful her eyes are. I love everything about her. Of course I do; I'm her Mommy. And just to show how cute she is, and to prove my point about her enjoying to eat everything, I have a kind of funny video following this text. Ben started taking it just as she grabbed onto her chair and started to eat it. I'd tell all about it, but it really is more fun to watch it, so just click below! (Sorry about all the background music...I really wanted to capture Hannah, but you have to listen closely to hear her...).

I also have a story to tell. Well, it's sort of a story. I think one of the times I've loved the most with Hannah is when she figured out who I am. I breastfeed her, and one day she kept breaking her latch and looking up at me, and she would suddenly smile or laugh or try to start talking to me. Sometimes I'd catch her looking at me in a calculating sort of way. After a couple of days I realized she was starting to figure out there was a person attached to her dinner. Now whenever she sees me preparing to feed her, she gets really excited. She rarely breaks away anymore, as if in surprise, to look at me. She's figured out I'm there. It makes me feel really special. What beautiful moments!

Hannah, The Scholar

I was given this baby book as a gift about a month ago, and Hannah has just started to play with it. Mainly she's interested in eating it, just like she seems to be preoccupied with sucking her fists for hours and hours at a time, but sometimes she does look at it. I thought these were cute enough to merit sharing.

Hannah is starting to get a lot of personality. It's obvious if she doesn't want to do something, or if she wants to do something else, and sometimes she complains about it. She's generally a very good and very quiet baby, though, with an easy going personality. She's easy to pacify or placate, and she's generally very happy and smiles a lot. I really enjoy this stage of her development, since she's starting to communicate with me (or at least I'm starting to understand her when she tries to communicate with me), and I absolutely love seeing her laugh!

Boeing 737

I have no idea how to spell "Boeing 737", but the good thing is that these blogs are edit-able, so if I realize I've made a fool out of myself, I'll just go and change it. I like that.

So, I've been neglectful lately, and haven't updated this blog like I've promised. But I've decided to ruin my original plan and put a picture of myself up here. Definitely not as cute as Hannah, but I couldn't exactly cut myself out of this picture, and I have been meaning to put it up for a while, so ah well, what can I do? This picture is from when Ben took Hannah and I to his school and showed us around. (He goes to SAIT and is in the AME program, for those who don't know). He showed us around the hanger, and we were lucky enough to run into a very helpful and friendly teacher, who not only let us into a usually restricted area of a plane, but also took pictures for us. This is one of them. It's of us hanging out in the cockpit.

Christmas Pre-Cursor

Well, here's to a new day of blogging. Here's a couple of pictures to update my life: Here's my crazy husband, Ben, pretending, I can only suppose, to be me. He's got Hannah stuck under my nursing apron. Make sure you check out the expression on his face. He really is hillarious sometimes. And then, I can't put up a post without putting my lovely daughter on it, either, so here she is, in a dress her Grandma Jensen gave to her:

I put this dress on Hannah, and propped her up to take a picture, (and of course I wanted a perfect one, so I was planning on taking several), and I snapped the first one and, click, she smiled at me. She broke into some of the biggest grins I've seen on her yet. I took quite a few more pictures, but I always missed her big smiles and caught just the end. This happened to be the best smiling picture. Oh I do wish I had taken it just a couple of seconds later! But ah well, what to do? I can't decide if she was so happy because she liked the dress, or because she liked getting her picture taken. Vanity is thy name! And very young, too. (I think it's mostly my fault. All I say to her all day is "You're so cute!" "Look at you, aren't you beautiful?" "Where's my gorgeous daughter?" But ah well, what to do? She really is beautiful. I wish I was that cute, and that people gave me beautiful dresses to wear and took pictures of me, too. Wouldn't that be the life? But, no, I guess not. I really am glad I'm not a baby anymore. It's much less boring that way! (I wonder if I thought being a baby was boring when I was a baby? When I look at Hannah now, I can't imagine what she could be thinking, laying there on her back and staring into space for half of the day.)


I'm really excited for Christmas. Seeing Hannah in a Christmas dress made me get all excited for it to come. But maybe without the cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold winter that we all usually enjoy in Calgary. Admittedly, a little snow would be nice, with above average December temperatures, but that's all.


Okay, well, I'll quit blabbing, since really what you probably want is just to look at pictures, anyway, and I'm really not in charge of the weather. 'Till the next time!

More About Clothes

Anyone want to see what I've been doing with my time? I made my daughter a dress. I was having a really hard time finding anything cute for a brand new baby (and she's not brand new anymore, so there is a lot more now that could work for her), and so I decided to make one myself. One of my friends, who came to my baby shower, got me a beautiful jumper, and I made a dress based on the pattern of the one she gave me. (One advantage of making a dress myself is that it doesn't cost me anything ... at least not right now. I have lots of little bits of leftover fabric from previous sewing projects, and they're just the perfect sizes to make baby clothes with. It made it so I felt less risky trying to experiment!) It's not perfect, since the button holes look ridiculous, and the angle of the seam on the shoulder is kind of skewonky, but otherwise I think it turned out great. It was my first sewing project in about three years. (I don't think making curtains and mending torn clothing really counts.)

Anyway, Ben and I found the shirt at a store, and it looked cute, but was way too big in the sleeves (as you can note in the first picture), so I adjusted them, as you can see in the second picture. I still think they're a little long, but I also decided the dress is too big for Hannah right now anyway, so she'll probably grow into it. (Kind of defeats the point of making it, but at least I had fun!)

Cute Clothes

Actually, I maybe should have said "Cute Daughter" since these pictures really are an excuse just to put pictures of Hannah up on the internet. I decided to add some more to the blog today since Ben won't be getting home as soon as I thought he would, and this will fill otherwise lonely time.

The picture on the left I took just now. One of my good friends, Emily, got Hannah this dress, and I thought I'd show everyone how cute it is:



And then, just to compare and see how much she's grown in the last month, take a look at the adjacent picture, of Hannah wearing an outfit her Great Grandma Jensen got her. (She already weighs about nine and a half pounds, and she was only five and a half when she was born. She's getting big far too quickly!)

And here's Hannah in the two dresses my Mom made. The white one was her baby blessing dress, and it was also mine. The pink one Mom started for my sister, Linda, and then finished it for Hannah. Isn't it beautiful?

And here are just a couple of more I decided to add for fun:

All very cute clothes, huh? (But of course, that's not really the thing I want you to look at...!)

Tickle Tickle

I started tickling Hannah, and she started making lots of noises. After a few seconds I decided she was laughing. It's pretty cute, but near the end of the video she quit making noises, and before we started the video, she was laughing a whole lot more. I think it's because the game might have worn off. She'd been "laughing" over and over again for about four or five minutes, and she may have just gotten tired of it by the time we decided to try and capture it on video. She seems most ticklesh in the spot Stevie is! (This was yesterday at around eleven o'clock at night.)




Ben started taking pictures before we decided to make a video, so here, also, are some of the pictures we took of Hannah while I was tickling her. Isn't she absolutely adorable?



Also, if you're interested in finding out how Hannah sleeps, you should take a look at these pictures. I have never seen anyone who sleeps as soundly as she does, and in all the positions and places she does! She falls asleep with her mouth full, and she'll fall asleep in the middle of talking to us and refuses to wake up until she's good and ready, no matter what we do!






And lastly, here's Ben talking to her, which he often does when he gets home from school, or just before bedtime: